The American Buffalo
The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generation, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world—and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.
America's national mammal, once numbering millions, is driven to near extinction.
By the late 1880s, the buffalo that once numbered in the tens of millions is on the brink of extinction. But a diverse and unlikely collection of Americans start a movement that rescues the national mammal from disappearing forever.
Judy Woodruff moderates a one-hour conversation with filmmaker Ken Burns and three experts: Jason Baldes, Rosalyn LaPier, and Dan Flores.
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William F. Cody | Self - Bison Hunter |
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Peter Coyote | Self - Narrator |
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Michael Punke | Self - Writer |
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Steven Rinella | Self - Writer |
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Germaine White | Self - Salish-Kootenai |
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George Horse Capture Jr. | Self - Aaniiih |
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Marcia Pablo | Self - Pend d'Oreille-Kootenai |
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Rosalyn LaPier | Self - Blackfeet-Métis |
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Charles Goodnight | Self - Texas Ranger |
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Dan Flores | Self - Historian |
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Sara Dant | Self - Historian |
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Dan O'Brien | Self - Writer |
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Jeff Daniels | John Cook |
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Tantoo Cardinal | Self |
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Gerard Baker | Self - Mandan-Hidatsa |
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Clay Jenkinson | Self - Historian |
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Dayton Duncan | Self - Writer |
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N. Scott Momaday | Self - Kiowa |
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Craig Mellish | Billy Dixon |
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Andrew C. Isenberg | Self - Historian |
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Sitting Bull | Self - Hunkpapa Lakota Leader |
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Dustin Tahmahkera | Self - Descendant of Quanah |
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Ron Parker | Self - Great-Grandson |
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Quanah Parker | Self - Comanche Leader |
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Elliott West | Self - Historian |
| Producer | Julianna Brannum, Emily Mosher, Susan Shumaker | |
| Musician | Kevin Hoetger | |
| Photography | Buddy Squires | |
| Nr Discs | 1 |
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